TW201413344A - Display with low reflection electrostatic shielding - Google Patents

Abstract

An electronic device may be provided with a display such as a liquid crystal display. The display may have a layer of liquid crystal material interposed between upper and lower polarizers. A first substrate such as a thin-film transistor layer may be interposed between the liquid crystal layer and the lower polarizer. A second substrate such as a color filter glass layer may be interposed between the upper polarizer and the liquid crystal layer. The color filter glass layer may have opposing upper and lower surfaces. The lower surface of the color filter glass layer may have an array of color filter elements. To prevent damage to display, an electrostatic shielding layer may be formed on the upper surface of the color filter glass layer under the upper polarizer. Reflections may be minimized by using index-matching dielectric layers in the display or thinning the shielding layer.

Description

Display with low reflection electrostatic shielding

The present application claims the benefit of priority to U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 13/619,866, filed on Sep.

The present application relates generally to electronic devices and, more particularly, to electronic devices having displays.

Electronic devices often include a display. For example, cellular phones and portable computers often include displays for presenting information to a user.

When touched by the user, the display can be exposed to static charge. Displays often have an electrostatic discharge shield to prevent damage to the display structure. The electrostatic shield prevents static charges from impinging harmful electric fields on the underlying display structure and thereby preventing damage to the display during electrostatic discharge events. The electrostatic shielding layer is formed of a conductive material to provide a low resistance path through which static charge can be removed from the display surface. The electrostatic shield is also transparent to allow the user to view the content on the display.

A commonly used material that is both transparent and electrically conductive and can therefore be used in forming an electrostatic discharge shield is indium tin oxide. By a conventional configuration, an indium tin oxide layer having a thickness of about 200 angstroms to 300 angstroms or more is formed between the upper surface of the display color filter glass layer and the lower surface of the upper polarizer. An indium tin oxide electrostatic shield having this type of conventional configuration is satisfactory for providing adequate shielding and display transparency, but can be caused by a display Undesired light reflection. In the presence of additional reflections, the content on the display may appear to be faded and difficult to view by the user.

Accordingly, it would be desirable to be able to provide an improved display having a low reflectivity surface with electrostatic discharge shielding.

An electronic device can be provided with a display such as a liquid crystal display. The display can have a layer of liquid crystal material, and an upper polarizer and a lower polarizer. A first substrate, such as a thin film transistor layer, can be interposed between the liquid crystal layer and the lower polarizer. A second substrate, such as a color filter glass layer, can be interposed between the upper polarizer and the liquid crystal layer.

The color filter glass layer can have opposing upper and lower surfaces. An array of color filter elements can be formed on the lower surface of the color filter glass layer. In order to prevent damage to the circuit in the display caused by static charge and distortion of the display image, an electrostatic shielding layer may be formed on the upper surface of the color filter glass substrate below the upper polarizer.

Display reflection can be minimized by reducing the thickness of the electrostatic shielding layer or by providing a dielectric layer such as an aluminum oxide layer above or below the electrostatic shielding layer.

The other features, aspects, and advantages of the present invention will become more apparent from the Detailed Description.

10‧‧‧Electronic devices

12‧‧‧ Shell

12A‧‧‧Upper casing

12B‧‧‧ lower casing

14‧‧‧ display

16‧‧‧ keyboard

18‧‧‧ Trackpad

20‧‧‧Hinged structure

22‧‧‧ Direction

24‧‧‧Rotation axis

26‧‧‧ button

28‧‧‧Speaker埠

29‧‧‧Control circuit

30‧‧‧Input and output circuits

32‧‧‧Communication circuit

34‧‧‧Input and output devices

36‧‧‧Sensor and status indicator

38‧‧‧Audio components

40‧‧‧Input and output components

42‧‧‧Backlight unit/backlight structure

44‧‧‧ Backlight

46‧‧‧ display layer

48‧‧‧Viewers

50‧‧‧ Direction

52‧‧‧Liquid layer

54‧‧‧Upper polarizer layer

56‧‧‧Display layer/substrate layer/color filter glass layer

56'‧‧‧Color filter components

58‧‧‧Display layer/thin film transistor layer

60‧‧‧lower polarizer layer

62‧‧‧Display driver integrated circuit

64‧‧‧Flexible printed circuit

66‧‧‧Printed circuit

68‧‧‧ Components/circuits on printed circuits

70‧‧‧Optical film

72‧‧‧Light source

74‧‧‧Light

76‧‧‧Edge surface

78‧‧‧Light guide

80‧‧‧ reflector

82‧‧‧Film transistor driver highlights

90‧‧‧Electrostatic Discharge Shield/Indium Tin Oxide Layer

92‧‧‧ upper layer

94‧‧‧lower layer

96‧‧‧ Grounding

98‧‧‧Light

100‧‧‧reflected light

102‧‧‧ Ambient light

104‧‧‧ Reflected light

106‧‧‧ Ambient light

110‧‧‧ layer

T‧‧‧ thickness

T1‧‧‧ thickness

T2‧‧‧ thickness

1 is a perspective view of an illustrative electronic device (such as a laptop) with a display in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a perspective view of an illustrative electronic device (such as a handheld electronic device) having a display in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a perspective view of an illustrative electronic device (such as a tablet) having a display in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.

4 is an illustration of an illustrative electronic device with a display in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention. intention.

Figure 5 is a cross-sectional side view of an illustrative display in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.

6 is a cross-sectional side view of an illustrative display having a transparent conductive electrostatic discharge shield configured to reduce surface reflections, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.

7 is a cross-sectional side view of an illustrative display having a transparent conductive electrostatic discharge shield layer interposed between a top layer and a lower layer of a material such as indium tin oxide to reduce surface reflection, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention. .

The electronic device can include a display. The display can be used to display images to the user. Illustrative electronic devices that can be provided with displays are shown in Figures 1, 2 and 3.

1 shows that electronic device 10 can have the shape of a laptop having an upper housing 12A and a lower housing 12B having components such as keyboard 16 and trackpad 18. The device 10 can have a hinge structure 20 that allows the upper housing 12A to rotate relative to the lower housing 12B in a direction 22 with respect to the axis of rotation 24 . The display 14 can be mounted in the upper housing 12A. The upper housing 12A, which may sometimes be referred to as a display housing or lid, may be placed in a closed position by rotating the upper housing 12A about the axis of rotation 24 toward the lower housing 12B.

2 shows that electronic device 10 can be a handheld device such as a cellular phone, music player, gaming device, navigation unit, or other compact device. In this type of configuration for device 10, housing 12 can have opposing front and back surfaces. Display 14 can be mounted to the front of housing 12. Display 14 may have a display cover layer or other outer layer that includes openings for components such as button 26, as desired. Openings may also be formed in the display cover layer or other display layers to accommodate the speaker cassettes (see, for example, the speaker cassette 28 of FIG. 2).

3 shows that electronic device 10 can be a tablet. In the electronic device 10 of FIG. 3, the outer casing 12 can have opposing flat front and rear surfaces. The display 14 can be mounted to the housing 12 On the front surface. As shown in FIG. 3, display 14 can have a cover layer or other outer layer (as an example) with an opening to receive button 26.

The illustrative configurations for device 10 shown in Figures 1, 2, and 3 are merely illustrative. In general, the electronic device 10 can be a laptop computer, a computer monitor with a built-in computer, a tablet computer, a cellular phone, a media player or other handheld or portable electronic device, a smaller device (such as a wristwatch). Devices, pendants, headsets or earpieces, or other wearable or micro devices), televisions, computer monitors without embedded computers, gaming devices, navigation devices, embedded systems (such as electronic devices with displays) A system installed in a kiosk or car, a device that implements two or more of these devices, or other electronic device.

The outer casing 12 of the device 10 (which is sometimes referred to as a housing) may be formed from several materials such as plastic, glass, ceramic, carbon fiber composites, and other fiber-based composites, metals (eg, processed aluminum). , stainless steel or other metals), other materials, or a combination of these materials. The device 10 can be formed using a unitary construction in which most or all of the outer casing 12 is formed from a single structural element (eg, a piece of machined metal or a piece of molded plastic), or can be mounted to a plurality of outer casing structures (eg, Formed by an internal frame member or an outer casing structure of other internal outer casing structures.

Display 14 can be a touch sensitive display that includes a touch sensor or can be insensitive to touch. The touch sensor for the display 14 can be formed by an array of capacitive touch sensor electrodes, a resistive touch array, a touch sensor based on acoustic touch, optical touch or force-based touch technology Structure, or other suitable touch sensor assembly.

The display of device 10 can generally include image pixels formed by: a light emitting diode (LED), an organic LED (OLED), a plasma unit, an electrowetting pixel, an electrophoretic pixel, a liquid crystal display (LCD) component, Or other suitable image pixel structure. In some cases, it may be desirable to use LCD components to form display 14, and thus the configuration for display 14 (where display 14 is a liquid crystal display) is sometimes described herein as an example. May also need To provide a display such as display 14 with a backlit structure, the configuration including the backlight unit for display 14 can sometimes be described herein as an example. Other types of display technologies can be used in device 10 as desired. The use of liquid crystal display structures and backlight structures in device 10 is merely illustrative.

The display cover layer may cover the surface of the display 14, or a display layer such as a color filter layer or other portion of the display may be used as the other portion of the outermost (or near outermost) layer of the display 14. The display cover layer or other external display layer may be formed from a transparent glass sheet, a clear plastic layer, or other transparent member.

A touch sensor component, such as an array of capacitive touch sensor electrodes formed of a transparent material such as indium tin oxide, can be formed on the underside of the display cover layer, and can be formed, for example, from a glass or a polymer The individual display layers of the touch sensor substrate may be integrated into other display layers (eg, substrate layers such as thin film transistor layers).

A schematic diagram of an illustrative configuration that can be used for electronic device 10 is shown in FIG. As shown in FIG. 4, electronic device 10 can include control circuitry 29. Control circuit 29 can include a memory and processing circuitry for controlling the operation of device 10. Control circuitry 29 may, for example, include a memory such as a hard disk drive, non-volatile memory (eg, flash memory configured to form a solid state drive or other electrically programmable read only memory) , volatile memory (for example, static or dynamic random access memory), etc. Control circuitry 29 may include processing circuitry based on one or more microprocessors, microcontrollers, digital signal processors, baseband processors, power management units, audio codec chips, special application integrated circuits Wait.

Control circuitry 29 can be used to execute software on device 10, such as operating system software and application software. Using this software, control circuitry 29 can present information to the user of electronic device 10 on display 14. Sensor information and other information can be used by control circuitry 29 to adjust the intensity of backlighting for display 14 when presenting information to display on display 14.

Input and output circuitry 30 may be used to allow data to be supplied to device 10 and may be used to allow data to be provided from device 10 to an external device. Input and output circuit 30 can include communication circuitry 32. Communication circuitry 32 may include wired communication circuitry for supporting communications using data in device 10. Communication circuitry 32 may also include wireless communication circuitry (e.g., circuitry for transmitting and receiving wireless radio frequency signals using an antenna).

The input and output circuit 30 can also include an input and output device 34. The user can control the operation of device 10 by supplying commands via input and output device 34, and can receive status information and other outputs from device 10 using the output resources of input and output device 34.

Input and output device 34 may include a sensor and status indicator 36, such as an ambient light sensor, a proximity sensor, a temperature sensor, a pressure sensor, a magnetic sensor, an accelerometer, and for collecting Information about the environment in which the device 10 is operating and information about the state of the device 10 are provided to the light-emitting diodes and other components of the user of the device 10.

The audio component 38 can include a speaker and an audio generator for presenting sound to the user of the device 10, and a microphone for collecting user audio input.

Display 14 can be used to present images, such as text, video, and still images, to a user. Sensor 36 can include a touch sensor array formed as one of several layers in display 14.

User inputs such as touchpad sensors, buttons, joysticks, pointing wheels, scroll wheels, touch sensors (such as display 14) can be collected using buttons and other input and output components 40, such as the following: Sensor 36), keypad, keyboard, vibrator, camera, and other input and output components.

A cross-sectional side view of an illustrative configuration of a display 14 that can be used for device 10 (e.g., display 14 for the device of FIG. 1, FIG. 2, or FIG. 3, or other suitable electronic device) is shown in FIG. As shown in FIG. 5, display 14 can include a backlight structure, such as backlight unit 42 for generating backlight 44. During operation, backlight 44 travels outward (in the orientation of Figure 5 in dimension) The degree Z is vertically upward and passes through the display pixel structure in the display layer 46. This backlight is being produced by the display pixels for any image that the user can view. For example, backlight 44 can illuminate an image on display layer 46 that is viewed by viewer 48 in direction 50.

The display layer 46 can be mounted in a base structure such as a plastic base structure and/or a metal base structure to form a display module for mounting in the housing 12, or the display layer 46 can be mounted directly into the housing 12 (eg, by The display layer 46 is stacked into the recessed portion in the outer casing 12). Display layer 46 can form a liquid crystal display or can be used to form other types of displays.

In configurations where display layer 46 is used to form a liquid crystal display, display layer 46 can include a liquid crystal layer, such as liquid crystal layer 52. Liquid crystal layer 52 can be sandwiched between several display layers, such as display layer 58 and display 56. Layers 56 and 58 can be interposed between lower polarizer layer 60 and upper polarizer layer 54.

Layers 58 and 56 may be formed from a transparent substrate layer such as a clear glass or plastic layer. Layers 56 and 58 can be layers such as thin film transistor layers and/or color filter layers. Conductive traces, color filter elements, transistors, and other circuits and structures can be formed on the substrates of layers 58 and 56 (e.g., to form thin film transistor layers and/or color filter layers). Touch sensor electrodes can also be incorporated into layers such as layers 58 and 56, and/or touch sensor electrodes can be formed on other substrates.

With respect to an illustrative configuration, layer 58 can be a thin film transistor layer comprising an array of thin film transistors and associated electrodes for applying an electric field to liquid crystal layer 52 and thereby displaying the image on display 14 (display pixel electrode ). Layer 56 can be a color filter substrate layer on which an array of color filter elements can be formed to provide display 14 with the ability to display color images. The substrate material used to form layer 56 can be a sheet of transparent material such as glass or plastic. An illustrative configuration in which the substrate layer 56 is formed using a glass layer is sometimes described as an example. The color filter elements on the glass layer 56 can be formed from a polymer colored with a dye or pigment (as an example).

During operation of display 14 in device 10, control circuitry 29 (e.g., one or more integrated circuits, such as component 68 on printed circuit 66 of Figure 5) can be used to generate information to be displayed on display 14 (e.g., , display information). Information to be displayed may be transmitted from circuit 68 to display driver integrated circuit 62 (as an example) using a signal path, such as a signal path formed by conductive metal traces in flexible printed circuit 64.

The display driver integrated circuit 62 can be mounted on the thin film transistor driver ledge 82 or elsewhere in the device 10. A flexible printed circuit cable, such as flexible printed circuit 64, can be used to route signals between printed circuit 66 and thin film transistor layer 58. The display driver integrated circuit 62 can be mounted on the printed circuit 66 or the flexible printed circuit 64 as needed. The printed circuit 66 can be formed from a rigid printed circuit board (eg, an epoxy layer filled with fiberglass) or a flexible printed circuit (eg, a flexible sheet of polyimine or other flexible polymer layer) .

The backlight structure 42 can include a light guide plate such as a light guide plate 78. Light guide plate 78 can be formed from a transparent material such as clear glass or plastic. Light source, such as light source 72, can produce light 74 during operation of backlight structure 42. Light source 72 can be, for example, an array of light emitting diodes.

Light 74 from source 72 can be coupled into edge surface 76 of light guide plate 78 and can be distributed over dimensions X and Y throughout light guide plate 78 due to the principle of total internal reflection. Light guide plate 78 can include light scattering features such as dimples or bumps. The light scattering features can be on the upper surface of the light guide plate 78 and/or on the opposite lower surface.

Light 74 that is scattered upward from light guide plate 78 in direction Z can serve as backlight 44 for display 14. The downwardly scattered light 74 can be reflected back in the upward direction by the reflector 80. The reflector 80 can be formed from a reflective material, such as a layer of white plastic or other shiny material.

To enhance the backlight performance of backlight structure 42, backlight structure 42 can include an optical film 70. The optical film 70 can include a diffusion layer for facilitating homogenization of the backlight 44 and thereby reducing hot spots, a compensation film for enhancing off-axis viewing, and a brightness enhancement film for collimating the backlight 44 (sometimes also referred to as As a turning film). The optical film 70 can be combined with other structures in the backlight unit 42 (such as light) The guide plate 78 and the reflector 80) overlap. For example, if light guide plate 78 has a rectangular footprint in the X-Y plane of FIG. 5, optical film 70 and reflector 80 can have a matching rectangular footprint.

In order to provide display 14 with the ability to withstand damage from electrostatic discharge events, display 14 may be provided with an electrostatic discharge shield, such as electrostatic discharge shield 90 of FIG. Layer 90 can be formed from a transparent conductive material such as indium tin oxide. A conductive path formed by a metal trace, a metal paint, a conductive adhesive, a wire, or other conductive material can be used to electrically short the layer 90 to ground 96 (eg, layer 90 can be shorted to a metal outer casing such as outer casing 12) Partially shorted to the ground trace on the printed circuit board in the housing 12). By grounding the ESD shield 90 in this manner, layer 90 can discharge any static charge deposited on display 14 due to contact with an external object such as the user's hand. Sputtering, other types of physical vapor deposition or other types of deposition techniques (eg, chemical vapor deposition, electrochemical deposition, inkjet patterning, pad printing, spin coating, spray coating, etc.) can be used to place the electrostatic discharge shield 90 Deposited on the layer of display 14.

The color filter glass layer 56 can be provided with a layer of color filter elements 56'. Color filter element 56' can, for example, include red, blue, and green polymeric color filter elements or other patterned colored structures to provide display 14 with the ability to display color images. As an example, color filter layer 56 can be provided with an array of color filter elements 56' that are each aligned with corresponding display pixels in a display pixel array on thin film transistor layer 58. The circuitry of display 14 can be compromised when exposed to an excessive electric field of the type that can be generated when static charge builds up on the surface of display 14. However, when the indium tin oxide layer 90 is included in the display 14, the indium tin oxide layer 90 will discharge any static charge deposited on the surface of the display 14 to the ground 96, thereby preventing damage to the circuitry within the display 14 and Distortion of the image on display 14.

As shown in FIG. 6, an indium tin oxide electrostatic discharge shield layer 90 can be interposed between the upper polarizer 54 and the color filter glass layer 56. Layer 90 can be deposited, for example, on a color filter glass On the upper surface of the glass 56 (for example, using sputtering or other deposition techniques). The polarizer layer 54 can be attached to the upper surface of the layer 90 using an adhesive (as an example).

Ambient light 106 may be directed at the surface of display 14 during operation of display 14. A small portion of the light 106 can be reflected from the display 14 and can be visible to a user such as the viewer 48 who is viewing the display 14 in the direction 50. Excessive reflection of display 14 can degrade the performance of display 14 (e.g., by reducing contrast, by generating spurious images on the display that interfere with the content being displayed on the display, etc.).

The reflection from display 14 can be at least partially the result of the presence of indium tin oxide layer 90. Polarizer layer 54 can have a refractive index of about 1.5. The color filter layer 56 can have a glass substrate or other clear dielectric substrate having a refractive index of about 1.5. However, the indium tin oxide layer 90 can have a refractive index that is significantly different from the refractive indices of the layers 54 and 56. The indium tin oxide layer 90 can, for example, have a refractive index of 1.9.

At least in part due to the refractive index mismatch between the indium tin oxide layer 90 and the materials such as the polarizer 54 and the color filter glass 56, the ambient light 106 can be reflected from the display 14. For example, ambient light, such as light 102, may be reflected from the interface between polarizer layer 54 and indium tin oxide layer 90 to produce reflected light 104, and light such as light 98 (ie, ambient light 102 has been transmitted through) A portion of the interface between layer 54 and layer 90 can be reflected from the interface between indium tin oxide layer 90 and color filter glass 56 to produce reflected light 100.

The magnitude of the light reflection from the interface between layer 54 and layer 90 and the interface from layer 90 to layer 56 can be modeled using Equation 1, where n1 represents the refractive index of indium tin oxide layer 90 and n2 represents the layer The refractive indices of 54 and 56.

|(n1-n2)/(n1+n2)| (1)

Since the values of n1 and n2 are significantly different, there is a relatively large possibility of causing an undesired amount of light reflection due to the presence of the indium tin oxide layer 90. However, since the phase of the reflected light 100 is 180° out of phase with the phase of the reflected light 104, light reflection can be minimized by minimizing the thickness T of the indium tin oxide layer 90. When T is relatively large, heterogeneous rays 100 and 104 do not destructively interfere, resulting in a relatively large amount of reflected light. When T is relatively small, the out-of-phase rays 100 and 104 tend to cancel each other, thereby minimizing reflection.

When, for example, the value of T is relatively thick (e.g., 200 angstroms or greater in a conventional display), the reflectivity of the display can be greater than the desired reflectivity. As an example, if T is formed to have a conventional thickness of 300 angstroms, the reflectivity of the display can be about 1.4% due to the presence of the indium tin oxide electrostatic discharge shield. If T is formed to have a conventional thickness of 200 angstroms, the reflectivity of the display can be about 0.75%.

The modeling results and experimental results using an indium tin oxide electrostatic shielding layer having a thickness of less than 200 angstroms indicate that a further reduction in reflection can be achieved by forming an indium tin oxide electrostatic shielding layer 90 having a thickness T of less than 200 angstroms. As an example, if T is 100 angstroms, the reflectance can be reduced to about 0.24%.

For satisfactory electrostatic shielding, it may be necessary to ensure that T is not too thin. If T is too thin (e.g., less than 10 angstroms), the sheet resistance of layer 90 can become very large (e.g., greater than 10,000 ohms per square). However, when T has a value that is not too small, the sheet resistance can be maintained at a suitable low value. As an example, if the value of T is about 90 angstroms, the sheet resistance of the indium tin oxide electrostatic shield layer 90 can be about 700 ohms per square. Shield layer 90 allows electrostatic charge to be effectively discharged to ground 96 when low sheet resistance is present.

In general, layer 90 may have a thickness T of less than 200 angstroms, less than 175 angstroms, less than 150 angstroms, less than 100 angstroms, greater than 50 angstroms, greater than 75 angstroms, from 40 angstroms to 180 angstroms, from 30 angstroms to 180 angstroms, and from 30 angstroms to 190 angstroms, 50 angstroms to 120 angstroms, 50 angstroms to 150 angstroms, 60 angstroms to 140 angstroms, 60 angstroms to 120 angstroms, 40 angstroms to 175 angstroms, 50 angstroms to 175 angstroms, 60 angstroms to 175 angstroms, 60 to 150 angstroms 70 angstroms to 130 angstroms, 100 angstroms to 170 angstroms, or other suitable thickness. When the thickness T has a small value such as this, the light 140 and the out-of-phase light 100 tend to destructively interfere with each other, thereby reducing the reflected light and minimizing the reflectance of the display 14 to ambient light, such that the viewer 48 The content on display 14 can be better viewed.

One or more layers of transparent material may be formed adjacent to the indium tin oxide electrostatic shield layer 90 as needed to help minimize light reflection from the display 14. This type of configuration is shown in Figure 7. As shown in FIG. 7, display 14 can include, for example, an upper material layer such as layer 92 having a thickness T1 and an upper material layer such as layer 94 having a thickness T2. Several layers, such as upper layer 92 and lower layer 94, may be formed from a transparent insulating material such as alumina (Al ₂ O ₃ ) or other transparent material (eg, oxide, nitride, or other dielectric). Layers 92 and 94 can be formed by sputtering, other physical vapor deposition techniques, chemical vapor deposition, or other deposition techniques.

Layers 92 and 94 may have refractive indices that are different from those of indium tin oxide electrostatic shield 90, polarizer layer 54, and color filter glass 56. As an example, layer 92 can have a refractive index intermediate between the index of refraction of layer 54 and the index of refraction of layer 90, and layer 94 can have an intermediate between the index of refraction of layer 30 and the index of refraction of layer 90. The refractive index of the value. In the context where layers 54 and 56 have a refractive index of 1.5 and layer 90 has a refractive index of 1.9, for example, layers 92 and 94 may each have a refractive index of 1.69 (eg, the refractive index of alumina). By suitable selection of the values of the thicknesses T1, T, and T2, a refractive index matching configuration can be achieved in which layer 110 and layers 54 and 56 are effectively index matched to minimize reflection. Examples of suitable thickness values that can be used for T1, T, and T2 include 1,250 angstroms, 250 mils, 1,250 angstroms (as a first example), 1,050 angstroms, 250 angstroms, 1,050 angstroms (as a second example), and 903 angstroms, 250 jewels, 926, respectively. E (as a third example).

The configuration of the indium tin oxide electrostatic shield 90 having a small thickness, of the type shown in Figure 6, is advantageous in minimizing reflections from the display 14 without introducing color cast or wavelength dependent reflectance. The display configuration of the type shown in Figure 7 can be characterized by a low sheet resistivity of layer 90. To ensure satisfactory grounding of the layer 90 in the configuration of the type shown in Figure 7, a mask can be used to prevent the layer 90 from being covered by a layer such as layer 92 during manufacture. An electrical path may be formed between layer 90 and ground 96 after the mask is removed.

According to an embodiment, a display is provided, comprising: a polarizer layer; An electrostatic shielding layer interposed between the polarizer layer and the display layer; a first material layer between the polarizer layer and the electrostatic shielding layer; and the electrostatic shielding layer and the display layer a second material layer, wherein the first material layer and the second material layer are configured to be from the display due to a refractive index mismatch between the electrostatic shielding layer and the polarizer layer and the display layer The reflection is minimized.

According to another embodiment, the electrostatic shielding layer comprises indium tin oxide.

According to another embodiment, the display further includes a layer of liquid crystal material.

According to another embodiment, the display layer comprises a color filter glass layer.

According to another embodiment, the first material layer comprises an oxide.

According to another embodiment, the second material layer comprises an oxide.

According to another embodiment, the first material layer and the second material layer are formed from a common material.

In accordance with another embodiment, the first material layer has a first thickness and wherein the second material layer has a second thickness equal to one of the first thicknesses.

In accordance with another embodiment, the electrostatic shielding layer has a third thickness that is less than one of the first thicknesses.

In accordance with another embodiment, the first material layer and the second material layer comprise a plurality of aluminum oxide layers.

According to another embodiment, the display layer comprises a color filter layer.

According to an embodiment, a display includes: a polarizer layer; a display layer; and an electrostatic shielding layer interposed between the polarizer layer and the display layer, wherein the electrostatic shielding layer has 30 Å to 190 One thickness of angstrom.

According to another embodiment, the display layer comprises a color filter glass layer.

According to another embodiment, the electrostatic shielding layer comprises indium tin oxide.

In accordance with another embodiment, the electrostatic shielding layer comprises indium tin oxide, wherein the display layer comprises a color filter glass layer, the color filter glass layer having an opposing first surface And a second surface and a plurality of color filter elements formed on the second surface, and wherein the indium tin oxide is deposited on the first surface.

According to another embodiment, the electrostatic shielding layer has a thickness between 60 Angstroms and 120 Angstroms.

According to an embodiment, there is provided a display comprising: an upper polarizer layer; a lower polarizer layer; a liquid crystal layer between the upper polarizer layer and the lower polarizer layer; the upper polarizer layer and the liquid crystal a color filter glass layer between the layers; a thin film transistor layer between the liquid crystal layer and the lower polarizer; and an electrostatic shielding layer between the color filter glass layer and the upper polarizer, Wherein the electrostatic shielding layer has a thickness between 50 Angstroms and 175 Angstroms.

According to another embodiment, the electrostatic shielding layer comprises indium tin oxide.

According to another embodiment, the electrostatic shielding layer has a thickness between 50 Angstroms and 120 Angstroms.

In accordance with another embodiment, the electrostatic shielding layer comprises a sputtered indium tin oxide layer on the color filter glass layer.

The foregoing is merely illustrative of the principles of the invention, and various modifications may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the scope and spirit of the invention.

14‧‧‧ display

48‧‧‧Viewers

50‧‧‧ Direction

54‧‧‧Upper polarizer layer

56‧‧‧Display layer / color filter glass layer

56'‧‧‧Color filter components

90‧‧‧Electrostatic Discharge Shield/Indium Tin Oxide Layer

96‧‧‧ Grounding

98‧‧‧Light

100‧‧‧reflected light

102‧‧‧ Ambient light

104‧‧‧ Reflected light

106‧‧‧ Ambient light

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A display comprising: a polarizer layer; a display layer; an electrostatic shielding layer interposed between the polarizer layer and the display layer; a first material layer between the polarizer layer and the electrostatic shielding layer And a second material layer between the electrostatic shielding layer and the display layer, wherein the first material layer and the second material layer are configured to be due to the electrostatic shielding layer and the polarizer layer and the display layer The refractive index mismatch between them minimizes reflections from the display. The display of claim 1, wherein the electrostatic shielding layer comprises indium tin oxide. The display of claim 2, further comprising a layer of liquid crystal material. The display of claim 3, wherein the display layer comprises a color filter glass layer. The display of claim 4, wherein the first material layer comprises an oxide. The display of claim 5, wherein the second material layer comprises an oxide. The display of claim 4, wherein the first material layer and the second material layer are formed from a common material. The display of claim 4, wherein the first material layer has a first thickness and wherein the second material layer has a second thickness equal to one of the first thicknesses. The display of claim 8, wherein the electrostatic shielding layer has a third thickness that is less than one of the first thicknesses. The display of claim 1, wherein the first material layer and the second material layer comprise a plurality of aluminum oxide layers. The display of claim 10, wherein the display layer comprises a color filter layer. A display comprising: a polarizer layer; a display layer; and an electrostatic shielding layer interposed between the polarizer layer and the display layer, wherein the electrostatic shielding layer has a thickness of 30 angstroms to 190 angstroms. The display of claim 12, wherein the display layer comprises a color filter glass layer. The display of claim 13, wherein the electrostatic shielding layer comprises indium tin oxide. The display of claim 12, wherein the electrostatic shielding layer comprises indium tin oxide, wherein the display layer comprises a color filter glass layer, the color filter glass layer having opposing first and second surfaces and forming a plurality of color filter elements on the second surface, and wherein the indium tin oxide is deposited on the first surface. The display of claim 15, wherein the electrostatic shielding layer has a thickness between 60 angstroms and 120 angstroms. A display comprising: an upper polarizer layer; a lower polarizer layer; a liquid crystal layer between the upper polarizer layer and the lower polarizer layer; a color between the upper polarizer layer and the liquid crystal layer a filter glass layer; a thin film transistor layer between the liquid crystal layer and the lower polarizer; and an electrostatic shielding layer between the color filter glass layer and the upper polarizer, wherein the electrostatic shielding layer has A thickness between 50 angstroms and 175 angstroms. The display of claim 17, wherein the electrostatic shielding layer comprises indium tin oxide. The display of claim 17, wherein the electrostatic shielding layer has a thickness between 50 Angstroms and 120 Angstroms. The display of claim 19, wherein the electrostatic shielding layer comprises a sputtered indium tin oxide layer on the color filter glass layer.